Nine-Year-Old Girl Plays Football, Kicks Ass and Maybe Changes the World
Few 9-year-old girls are described as a “
young-very young-Walter Payton.” But that’s what people are calling Sam Gordon of South Jordan, Utah. Gordon has become an Internet sensation after the spread of viral videos showing her shredding Pee Wee football defenses with a series
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What I got from this article was not that CAFAB people and CAMAB people would be equal at every sport if sex segregation at younger ages were removed, but that a large part of the current difference in performance is due to early sex segregation and that it's not so much that one sex (loosely defined here, please let me know if my terminology can be improved) is better across the board than the other, but that they tend to be better in different areas (I think on a related previous ontd post someone pointed out CAFAB people tend to have an advantage in sports requiring a low centre of gravity).
Agree with you on not being challenged thing- I only started doing sport intensely once I got to university (rowing), which was before I started transitioning, and there our female bodied team beat the shit out of the male bodied team.
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that's kind of what i was trying to get at with the girls not being challenged, i could have made my point more clearly though, i realise that though XD . and them not being challenged kind of comes from the fact that they do "ability" segregation by sex, rather than segregation based on ability regardless of sex.
it's not so much that one sex (loosely defined here, please let me know if my terminology can be improved) is better across the board than the other, but that they tend to be better in different areasi feel that goes into the territory of 'girls are not weak, they are just different!' (i.e. let's just change the word here, but not the thinking) as well as still keeping up the mental thinking barriers that girls are just good at X, and boys at Z ( ... )
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I know you aren't saying there are no physical differences, and it's a big problem when that argument is used to keep people out of certain sports - but it's also not really something that can be ignored in sports or solved by just saying girls can join whatever teams they want. From a training perspective, not recognizing the different strengths and weaknesses of female bodies and using a 'one size fits all' approach - which like most things that are supposed to apply to everyone was designed by generations of intensly studying the physical devolopment of men and boys - is part of what keeps girls from being as strong as they could, as well as putting them at a much greater risk for certain injuries ( ... )
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JUST SAYING~
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On the other hand, guys at least have the small possibility of going pro and getting an even more competitive league. The story doesn't end in college for them.
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That girl was being a tiny little badass and all they could say is that she could only do it for a few more years until she had to 'retire'.
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Unfortunately a lot of their early wins were due to refusals by opponents. boo.
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what's hilarious (and sad) is that that's not true.
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I feel so, so dirty typing that. I need a shower.
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